104 Beautiful Shells. 
found on almost any part of the coast where the 
water-line is margined with a sandy ridge. The 
shells are generally about two inches long, of various 

COMMON SCALLOP, 
colours, clouded, speckled, and marked with about 
twelve ribs. There is a foreign species called the 
Flounder Scallop (P. plewronectes), which is remark- 
able for having the two valves of the shell of 
different colours, the upper one being of a rich 
reddish brown, and the lower one white. The 
specific name has reference to this, being com- 
pounded of the Latin plewra, something double, and 
mecto, to join. The fish called the Flounder is 
brown above and white beneath; hence the English 
name of this shell. The preceding engraving of the 
Common Scallop, viewed from the front, shows the 
